Carlos Santana
Musician
1947-07-20
Carlos Santana is a Mexican-born guitarist and songwriter known for his influential fusion of rock and Latin music.
Books by Carlos Santana
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Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)
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React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices
Design, build, and deploy production-ready web applications using industry-standard practices
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Quotes by Carlos Santana
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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